Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYwords. If one were to take the prosecution seriously, one would have toseize and burn the majority of the established literature on the persecutionof the Jews.Are you actually aware of the possible consequences of your argumentation,Mr. Prosecutor?Since I am fundamentally opposed to censorship, I am also opposedto prohibiting bad science. Among other things because even bad sciencecan lead to correct results, although less likely, and even bad sciencecan trigger a learning effect.IV. The German Constitutional High Court on theDefinition of ScienceIn a decision concerning the attempt of the German Federal AssessmentAgency for Media Endangering the Youth (Bundesprüfstelle fürjugendgefährdende Medien) to put a revisionist book on the causes ofWWII on the index of banned books, the German Constitutional HighCourt (Bundesverfassungsgericht) expressed the following opinion concerningwhat constitutes a scientific book: 121“The protection of the fundamental right to a free science doesneither depend on the correctness of its methods or results nor onthe soundness of the argumentation and logical reasoning or thecompleteness of the points of view and the evidence lying on the baseof a scientific work. Only science itself can determine what is goodor bad science and which results are true or false. […] Thus scientificfreedom protects minority opinions as well as research approachesand results that turn out to be erroneous or flawed. In thesame way unorthodox or intuitive procedures enjoy the protection ofthe Basic Law. A necessary prerequisite is merely that it is science;120 “How come we have no decent quality control when it comes to evaluating Holocaust materialfor publication?” Thusly quoted by N.G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, op. cit. (note119), p. 60; likewise in a letter to Dr. Robert H. Countess of 21 June 1988: “Superficiality is themajor disease in the field of Holocaust studies”; similar in an interview with Eva Schweitzer,“Rücksicht auf die Verbündeten,” Berliner Zeitung, 4 Sept. 2000: “You once said there is noquality control in the Holocaust debate. [Hilberg:] That’s correct, especially at numerous U.S.elite universities.” (www.vho.org/D/Beitraege/HilbergBZ040900.html).121 Verdict BVerfG, 11 Jan. 1994, ref. 1 BvR 434/87, pp. 16f. Indexing a medium means that oneis no longer allowed to offer or sell it to minors, that any promotion for it or offer for sale in thegeneral public is prohibited.92